How to style your home with flowers and plants

West Dean College is delighted to welcome the artist, sound recordist and composer, Jez riley French, to its 2019 programme. Jez will perform live at West Dean on 28th February as part of Salon Imaginaire #5 and will be running a Field Recording short course in September.

Catherine tells us about her lifelong passion for building conservation, and how others can pursue their interest and achieve qualifications here at West Dean College.

West Dean College Archivist, Simon Colman, updates on the cataloguing of the Edward James Archive.

The Feral Choir is a vocal experience for those who sing, for those who do not sing and for those who will never sing. Led by the unique and extraordinary singer and improvisation musician Phil Minton, the feral choir workshop will conclude with a live performance of improvised noise at Salon Imaginaire #4.

Mark Radcliffe, Subject Leader for the MA Creative Writing and Publishing programme, enjoys a conversation with Rutendo Chabikwa during her one-week residency at West Dean College.

In a previous post I described the initial stages of my research in the properties and preparation of wheat starch paste. Here I will continue with an outline description of the quantitative and qualitative tests my paste samples were subjected to, in order to identify which parameters might influence the properties of paste.

Deciding which course of treatment to take on an object can be a near-impossible task, and even after I've finished working on a clock and it's ticking away happily on a test stand, I'll still be wondering if there was something I should have done slightly differently...

Previous Artist-in-Residence, Gabriele Beveridge is showing new work at Seventeen Gallery in London. The solo exhibition, Live Dead World, include a series of photograpms made by Beveridge during her 2017/18 residency at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.